Bob Terzuola is joining the Boker stable with the incoming Tac-Master. This folder embodies all the qualities you’d expect in a Terzuola design, but in a fresh new package.
If anyone in the knife industry deserves to be called the “Tac-Master,” it’s Terzuola. His innovations throughout the 70s and 80s helped to establish the tactical knife concept, a concept that has gone on to be one of the most influential in both the custom and production fields. Like all of the greats, Terzuola’s knives and style are evergreen, and he’s been a busy man lately, with a whole slew of collaboration projects rolling out with multiple collaborators.
The Tac-Master hearkens back to the Terzuola heyday with a 3.9-inch blade. That’s more than enough edge to give this one a tactical knife designation, and the blade shape really drives the point home. It’s a Japanese-style tanto that’s been bulked up with a compound grind that puts a little extra material behind the straight edge portion, and thins out the forward portion and tip. A low profile flipper tab is on tap for deployment, and the blade steel is Nitro-V, sporting a blackwash coating here to match the tactical aesthetic.
Terzuola designed the Tac-Master with a low-key handle profile, but still gave it some attitude with a few tasteful angles and pivot hardware sporting his signature dragon emblem. The scales themselves are made from a mute, handsome Micarta, with a black stainless steel pocket clip on the off-side to complete the look. Fittingly enough the Tac-Master is a liner lock.
Boker’s European website says to expect the Tac-Master in October.
Knife in Featured Image: Boker Plus Tac-Master
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